Chapter 234: The Great War Begins

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In 665 AD, on April 5, Wei, Shu and Qin had a total of one million men and horses, and the troops came to the city of Chang'an in the Tang Dynasty, and broke through the four gates of Chang'an in one day.

On April 6, Wei Shu and Qin Daqin broke through the five gates of the Chang'an Imperial City again, and most of the Tang Imperial Forest Army suffered casualties, and 30,000 soldiers of the patrol battalion were killed together with the main general Meng Keren.

On the same day, Xu Hongxuan, the defender of Liangzhou, learned that Chang'an was in an emergency, and led his troops to help, and suffered a major defeat on the north bank of the Wei River.

On the evening of the 6th, Tang Gaozong Li Zhi had no choice but to send peace talks, but the negotiations broke down, and the three armies of Wei, Shu and Qin attacked again, the nine gates of the imperial city were broken, and the four gates of the palace city were broken together with half an hour later.

Later, Tang Gaozong was forced to accept the conditions of the army, and the three armies of Wei, Shu and Qin retreated to Chang'an.

On April 9, the Qin army retreated.

On April 14, most of the Wei army and the Shu army retreated.

On April 17, the Wuhu army appeared outside Chang'an and attacked the Wei and Shu coalition forces.

In the melee.

Shu general Chen Zhi fought to the death.

Wei will die in the Forbidden Blood War.

On the evening of April 18, Cao Mengde, the king of Wei, raised the elite of Wei and led an army with Guan Yunchang, the marquis of Hanshou Pavilion, to rescue Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, who was besieged.

On April 19, Cao Mengde, the king of Weiwu, and Liu Bei, the king of Hanzhong, held a swearing-in meeting on the south bank of the Wei River.

During the battle, the 380,000 Liao army joined the battle group under the leadership of the Empress Dowager Xiao of the Great Liao, and the battle was fierce and unfavorable to the Wei and Shu coalition forces.

At the same time, Yang Jiye, a famous general of the Northern Song Dynasty, led his seven sons and 100,000 Song troops to help, and the two sides fought a big battle on the north and south banks of the Wei River, both suffered heavy casualties, and then retreated to the camp for repair.

On the evening of April 20, when the two armies confronted each other, the Xianbei general Murong Ke led his army to rob the camp, burned 50,000 quintals of grain and grass, and returned victorious.

On the evening of April 21, Murong Ke repeated his old tricks, and the Wei and Shu coalition forces had already prepared and set up ambushes, Xianbei Murong and returned defeated.

On the evening of April 22, Cao Mengde sent a large army to attack the Liao army camp, but was defeated.

On the morning of April 24, in order to avoid the robbery of grain and grass, Cao Mengde set up an ambush at the same time and transferred the grain and grass to Cuihua Mountain, 30 miles south of Chang'an City, and Yang Jiye led his troops to defend it with 50,000 Wei and Shu allied troops.

On April 25, Yang Jiye's troops arrived at the Cuihua front, and the 80,000 troops of the vanguard of the Liao State also lined up at the foot of Cuihua Mountain.

On the same day, after the Liao army was exhausted, Cao Mengde ordered Zhang Liao, Cao Ren, Xu Huang, Guan Yu, Zhao Yun, and Zhang Fei to lead an army of 300,000 to cross the Wei River and kill the Wuhu camp.

The big war begins!

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Since the whole army of the Great Liao was drawn out, and the 390,000 Liao army drove to Cuihua Mountain, the original Liao army camp was stationed by Wuhu.

The tall wall, with the help of a large number of crossbow arrows, the Wei Shu coalition army attacked unfavorably, from 11 o'clock at noon, until 3 o'clock in the afternoon, four hours of fierce attack, the Wei Shu army failed to move forward, and killed and wounded tens of thousands of soldiers and horses.

Wuhu also suffered heavy casualties.

After resting for an hour, at four o'clock in the afternoon, Changshan Zhao Zilong and Wei general Cao Ren led an army of 30,000 to continue the onslaught.

Cao Cao and Liu Bei looked at the battle situation in front of them worriedly, and their tight brows never let go for a moment, Cao Cao's order to the army was to take the camp at all costs, he didn't know what would happen in the future, then he only knew that he was feeling very bad now, but he couldn't say what was bad.

He was afraid, he was afraid that Yang Ye would encounter an accident, so he had to hurry up and take down the Wuhu camp as quickly as possible, kill all those Hu people, and then return to the division to rescue Yang Ye, even if he had already laid out his back hand, he was still worried.

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Cuihua Mountain.

Yang Ye stood on top of the towering wall, looking at the Qiang army that was gathering at the foot of the mountain, without any words, just silently clenched the golden-backed broadsword in his hand.

The seven sons of the Yang family led their soldiers and horses to guard the key points of the camp and waited for the enemy to start attacking.

Twenty minutes later, under the leadership of a Qiang general, a mixed force of 60,000 Qiang troops and 20,000 Di and Qiang soldiers launched a fierce attack on the Song army camp on Cuihua Mountain.

Cuihua Mountain, the remnant peak and cliff, the danger is abnormal, the location of the camp selected by Cao Cao for Yang Ye is even more dangerous, most of them only have one or two or three extremely steep paths, you have to be careful when walking, not to mention the need to brave the rolling wood and stones to attack.

The initial march of the Wuhu army was still very smooth, and not a single person was killed, because they had not yet entered the effective range of the Song army's bows and crossbows.

Until 80,000 Hu soldiers and horses, all over the mountains appeared 100 meters in front of the Song military camp, Dalang Yang Yanping shouted: "Release the arrow!" โ€

Tens of thousands of arrows came out of the hands of the Song army, and shot heavily at the five Hu soldiers in front of them, and in an instant, the screams of countless soldiers sounded, and a corpse full of crossbow arrows rolled down the mountain, and many people were not hit by the arrow, but accidentally stepped on it and fell down in the chaos, and even more were simply smashed down by the corpse in front.

Soon, this situation was reversed when the Qiang shieldmen rushed to the front line.

But when countless stones and rolling logs rolled down the hillside, the Wuhu army was smashed one by one crying dad and shouting mother, and for a time there were corpses of smashed soldiers flying everywhere, Yang Erlang and Yang Qilang ordered 10,000 horses to kill out of the camp and repelled this wave of Wuhu's attack.

But just an hour has passed, and the Wuhu army, which had killed and wounded six or seven thousand people in the previous battle, launched an attack on the Song army camp on the mountain again, but this time they were followed by the Liao army, but these Liao troops with cold faces and long knives did not come to help the battle, but to supervise the battle.

All the Wuhu soldiers who dared to retreat privately were hacked to death by the Liao army, although the Qiang general who led the attack before died on the way to attack and was shot into a hedgehog by random arrows, but this did not prevent the Empress Dowager Xiao from punishing the Wuhu soldiers for ineffective combat.

Because Yao Jingmao's head was hanging on a tent at the foot of the mountain at the moment, this was the method of Empress Dowager Xiao, she took Yao Jingmao's head and the Liao soldiers who supervised the battle to tell Wuhu's people.

Attack, die, retreat, and die.

So it's easy to imagine, there are wolves in front and tigers in the back, Wuhu rushed forward with the determination to die, it is better to die in the hands of the Song army than in the hands of their own people, although their own people in their mouths have never regarded them as a family, but the most important point is that the attack may die, but at least there is a glimmer of life.

The soldiers of the Wuhu went crazy, they desperately stepped on the corpses of their compatriots and killed them to the camp on the mountain, and later because there were so many dead people, they actually used the corpses to build a road.

The Song army fell into a bitter battle, at the most critical time, there were 10,000 Wuhu soldiers who invaded the village, Yang Jiye brandished a long knife in the chaotic army, slashed and killed, and the seven sons beside him also kept leading people to block the Wuhu army.

Yang Ye swung out a knife, that is, three Wuhu soldiers were sent to the side by the huge force of the golden knife, and the wide camp was full of the figures of the two soldiers fighting, and the Song soldiers stabbed the spears in their hands into the chests of the Wuhu soldiers, and the Wuhu soldiers waved the sabre in their hands to cut the throat of the Song army in front of them.

Yang Ye saw that more and more Wuhu men and horses rushed into the village, and even the Liao army followed, so he hurriedly ordered the soldiers to retreat and retreat to the next camp.

After the seventh son received the order, Yang Erlang, and Yang Liulang led the army to break off, Yang Ye led the troops and horses to retreat towards the rear Dazhai.

But at this moment, five Wuhu soldiers drew their bows and shot at Yang Ye, who was extremely dazzling in the chaotic army, Lao Linggong couldn't be guarded, and was shot in the waist by a dark arrow, Yang Ye frowned, and couldn't help but let out a muffled sound, Yang Wulang, who had been guarding behind him, saw his father hit the arrow, and subconsciously shouted: "Father, you have been hit by an arrow!" โ€

Yang Ye scolded, "What are you shouting!" โ€

Yang Wulang hurriedly closed his mouth, only to see Lao Linggong stretched out and held the arrow shot at his waist and abdomen, and with a force in his right hand, the bloody long arrow was directly pulled out by him.

Yang Wulang worriedly followed his father and retreated all the way to the camp.

Yang Ye led the army to retreat into the camp, and Yang Erlang and Yang Liulang, who were behind the palace, withdrew back with the broken soldiers and horses, but the Wuhu soldiers behind them bit them to death.

Yang Erlang and Yang Liulang worked hard to repel those Wuhu soldiers and retreated to the camp, but without any pause, those Hu people launched another onslaught, until the sky was dark, and they were ordered by the Empress Dowager Xiao to retreat.

On this day, the Song army under Yang Yesuo suffered nearly 15,000 casualties, while the Wuhu were twice as many as them, a full 30,000 people.

When night fell, whether it was the battlefield of Cuihua Mountain or the battle of the Liao army camp on the north bank of the Wei River, it was temporarily over.

The Liao army camp can be said to be the most seriously damaged in this battle, with about 60,000 killed by the 110,000 and 50,000 Hu troops, and the losses of Yeluqi's Liao army are not small.

The 300,000 Wei and Shu coalition troops suffered nearly 80,000 casualties, and they were also attacking the camp and pulling out the village, and the losses of the two sides were simply disproportionate, and the most fundamental reason was because of the terrain.

In addition, Zhao Yun and Guan Yu's force is too terrifying, and if it weren't for the fact that it was getting dark, Cao Cao was worried that there would be an ambush, and he would directly let people take advantage of the night to capture the Wuhu camp, kill all the Hu people in one fell swoop, and then take the men and horses to help Yang Ye.

Cao Cao didn't know that it was precisely because of this night's rest that the battle situation would change dramatically.

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